Friday, October 7, 2016

As if there aren’t enough goddesses at work in my psyche,
now I’ve been given Athena.I
accept.Persephone, Demeter, Hecate,
Hestia, and now Athena.(Oh, and some
conversations with Kali, too, but that’s another pantheon.)

I’ve been wanting to write about my experiences the last 3
months since attending the intensive, but it’s been difficult because everything has felt
so unresolved, so unclear. Much of it may always be a mystery, but I have come
to understand certain things about it. It may take several blogs, and I may not be as linear or logical as usual. Maybe that's a good thing!

To make a long story short, after being in the crucible of
the intensive (with fires also burning all around Topanga and nearby), I felt
myself seized by a headache in the back of my head. But I’ve grown convinced that
it is really a spiritual illness with physical manifestations. I have to treat it accordingly

(but be assured I’ve used the allopathic system as well as lots of all kinds of alternative treatments).

Yesterday, I had a conversation with Deena.She says something is about to be born.Like Zeus before Athena sprang from his
head, I, too, have an aching head.

Deena spoke of a statue of Athena at the Parthenon
Museum, and I remembered it immediately.It’s one
of the few images of Athena that I love.As Deena said, Athena is a warrior, but also very feminine, and accompanied by
snakes (which many goddesses are).She is the goddess of the mind,
and I’m ready for a new belief system (or an old one, really) to take hold.